rousseau, who believed nature to be the source of all good.or him, society was the reason man was born free, but everywhere is in chains. didederot, who in his encyclopea attempted to scrutinize all natural phenomena in the light of reason. diderot's attack on boucher's provocative odalisque reads like a modern attack on pornography. "today's moral decadence," he said, "has led step by step "to the corruption of taste, of color, of composition, "of character, of expression. "this man has no taste. he takes up his brush only to show bottoms and breasts." for diderot, artists like greuze pointed the way forward to a new art, new taste, new morality. his pictures are part of the growth of a new climate in france, part of those almost imperceptible changes in history of which great events like the french revolution are the outcome. with greuze and, here, chardin, we detect a new theme-- that ordinary people have a heroism, that virtue and strength reside in them, not in kings and nobles. indeed, in chardin's world of middle-class people are the me

what we commonly call civil society, which is what the lexington toqueville rousseau brilliantly about and scraping fabric of american life that we need to sustain them revitalize if we are going to get this country back on its tracks. people ask me why you believe what i believe in who i am. it's because of where i come from, my family and my community. >> you call that social capital as i recall. what does it take to regenerate the kind of social capital that tocqueville thought was so unique about this country? >> that is where i do discuss the downside of liberal progressivism, which i believe is a print bowl of governing with no limit. what it does is seek every problem with a large centralized solution, which ends up displays in a crowded out the civil society. i quote people who have been reading and tracking social capital for a long time. bowling alone is a fantastic book, a harvard economist who's written about social capital. we are not spending our lives together anymore. we are not ignorant h&r communities. we are bowling alone and this is something that has to be revitali

what we commonly call civil society, which is what the lexington toqueville rousseau brilliantly aboutd scraping fabric of american life that we need to sustain them revitalize if we are going to get this country back on its tracks. people ask me why you believe what i believe in who i am. it's because of where i come from, my family and my community. >> you call that social capital as i recall. what does it take to regenerate the kind of social capital that tocqueville thought was so unique about this country? >> that is where i do discuss the downside of liberal progressivism, which i believe is a print bowl of governing with no limit. what it does is seek every problem with a large centralized solution, which ends up displays in a crowded out the civil society. i quote people who have been reading and tracking social capital for a long time. bowling alone is a fantastic book, a harvard economist who's written about social capital. we are not spending our lives together anymore. we are not ignorant h&r communities. we are bowling alone and this is something that has to be revitalize